ETF Power Rankings Articles

We're seeing more defensive sectors climb the leaderboard as the outlook for the U.S. markets weakens.

Perhaps an element of interest is to consider the areas of the market with the lowest overall...

The U.S. markets have rebounded after reports the White House is easing their position on tariffs.

Most importantly is that this news has provided fertile grounds to build a new rally, and with the S...

The S&P 500 continues slipping in the power rankings as long-term trends shift in favor of international markets.This transition is clear in the S&P 500’s shift from green to red—signaling weakening...

Gold...

It's the hottest asset in town and it's smoking the U.S. markets in 2025. While the S&P is down 3%, Gold is up 14% and the Gold mining companies $GDX are up double that of 28%.

While...

The dominant force in equity markets right now is the record rotation out of U.S. equities and into international markets.The biggest losers over the past month? U.S. growth stocks. And at the tail end of...

As the U.S. markets have sold off, defensive sectors with lower volatility have done well.

Consumer Staples, Real Estate, and Utilities are all sectors with low beta that have outperformed.

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Most notably, Large Cap Value $IWD has climbed to the top of the rankings as U.S. growth has sold off.

The trend favoring value over growth is clearly intact over shorter timeframes. But what would it...

The same theme continues to dominate across the global markets; more money is rotating out of the United States and flowing into international markets.

As shown in above chart, the S&P 500 has now...

Precious metal miners have climbed to the top of the rankings in an impressive fashion. This has been a persistent and growing trend over the last few weeks as Gold climbs to all time highs in the face of...

We can certainly see some movement on this week's thematic table as equity markets have extended their decline.

The basic summary here is that high beta and growth have dropped on the list; examples of...

This table captures the longer-term drift in the relative performance of the U.S. sectors as markets accelerate their selloff.

You can see groups like Communications $XLC continue to show leadership,...

Large Cap Growth $IWF has stepped down on the rankings as Large Cap Value $IWD has climbed to the top.

Clearly, equity markets have sold off rather aggressively in recent weeks.

The S&P 500 $...

The S&P 500 (United States) has fallen into red territory in our global rankings. This marks a notable development, as under our relative strength ranking America is now in the bottom half of the world in...

We're noticing many important cyclical groups beginning to transition to red, indicative of the lingering risk aversion impacting the U.S. markets right now.

The Semiconductor $XSD and Homebuilders ETF...

A number of more defensive sectors, like Consumer Staples $XLP, Real Estate $XLRE, and Health Care $XLV are transitioning to green as U.S. markets sell off. This points to the growing risk aversion from...

The big insight here is that equity markets failed to follow through on their strength to close last week.

The Nasdaq 100 ETF $QQQ, for instance, is now breaking below a key level of support. Unless...

The key piece of information here is how more and more international diversified ETFs are overtaking the US' S&P 500 $SPY.

International stocks have outperformed YTD versus the United States, a...

What immediately stands out is how the precious metal miner ETFs have migrated to the top of the table. This points to a pronounced increase in relative strength as equity markets have sold off.

You can...

As US stocks have sold off in recent sessions, China growth has migrated to the top of the rankings.

Notably, this group found itself well into the red during the most correction. But this rotation into...

US sectors have experienced some notable weakness this week as many groups fail to hold their recent breakouts.

While this does a paint a picture that the market environment is transitioning to a...

Growth and large cap factors continue to lead in the green on the US indices table.

Importantly, many indexes have been rejected after testing their most recent highs.

While this isn't a...

More country ETFs are beginning to climb up the ETF Power Rankings. Beginning 2025, global stocks have actually outperformed the United States.

While this has been a secular downtrend in global relative...

Honestly, not much to note here so this will be brief.

The same industry groups continue to lead higher, like Internet $FDN, Cloud $SKYY, Broker Dealers $IAI, and Cyber Security $HACK. Further, the...

Something that stands out week to week is how persistently green the Ark funds have been in their leadership.

This is a market environment that is rewarding speculative growth companies, and as shown...